Mandy Jay Editor & Author

Mike Parker Pearson is Professor of British Later Prehistory at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. A distinguished prehistorian, he has been involved with many major projects, including leading the recent Stonehenge Riverside Project. Mandy Jay is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology, University of Durham where she specialises in the scientific study of isotopes and diet in prehistory. Andrew Chamberlain is Professor of Bioarchaeology at the University of Manchester. He specialises in the study of human remains from archaeological sites with research interests focusing on a range of questions in biological anthropology, science-based archaeology and palaeodemography. Mike Richards is a lecturer at the Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada. His research interests include the evolution of human diets over time, especially the diets of Neanderthals and early modern humans, and the spread and adoption of agriculture in Eurasia.  Current research includes developing new isotope systems for dietary and migration studies, using isotope analysis to explore and catalogue the range and nature of human dietary adaptations throughout the Holocene, and developing and applying isotope analysis in forensics. Jane Evans works for the Nerc Isotope Geosciences Laboratory (NIGL) of the British Geological Survey In Nottingham. She is an isotope geochemist specializing in the application of isotope systems to archaeological issues of provenance and diet.